Cost Optimizer

Cost Optimizer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from eddiebelaval/squire. It costs 16 tokens per session (315 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A spending-analysis guide that examines expense data by category, vendor, and time period to find possible savings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze costs, compare vendors, identify reductions, prepare renegotiations, and track realized savings.
Why use it?
It helps reveal waste, costly vendors, and spending patterns that are difficult to see in raw expense records.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to analyze costs, compare vendors, identify reductions, prepare renegotiations, and track realized savings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/eddiebelaval/squire/cost-optimizer
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add eddiebelaval/squire --skill cost-optimizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eddiebelaval/squire

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 315 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00016 $0.00315
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00158
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00032

Measured 7d ago against content hash 5d5db704983a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Cost Optimizer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/cost-optimizer/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Cost Optimizer

Analyze spending patterns and identify opportunities to reduce costs without sacrificing quality or performance. Turn expense data into actionable savings strategies.

Core Workflows

Workflow 1: Spend Analysis

  1. Gather Data - Collect all expense data
  2. Categorize - Group spending by type and vendor
  3. Trend Analysis - Identify patterns over time
  4. Benchmark - Compare to industry standards
  5. Identify Opportunities - Flag areas for reduction

Workflow 2: Vendor Optimization

  1. Vendor Review - Audit current vendor relationships
  2. Price Comparison - Research alternative options
  3. Consolidation - Identify vendor consolidation opportunities
  4. Renegotiation - Prepare for contract renegotiation
  5. Track Savings - Monitor realized savings

Quick Reference

Action Command
Analyze costs "Analyze spending for [period]"
Find savings "Identify cost reduction opportunities"
Vendor review "Review vendor [name] spending"
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 46 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 5d5db704983a

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Cost Optimizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository eddiebelaval/squire (21 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 315 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.